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Meet John Doe · Beat 292 · permalink

Restaurant

1:33:45–1:34:05 Registered 1941

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed (partial). 4 quotes checked against the transcript; 3 names checked for a spoken or on-screen source; 0 of 3 visible events checked against a frame. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 1:33:501:33:50Frame at 1:33:571:33:57Frame at 1:34:021:34:02

Play from 1:33:45 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 132 · shots 711–713. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
restaurant (restaurant, interior) evidence: frame:3
People
  • Ann Mitchell (named at t:93:46): woman, mid-adult, wearing a light-colored, textured jacket with a dark tie or sash at the waist, seated visible, audible
  • Norton (named at t:93:57): man, adult, wearing a dark suit, standing, seen from the side or back visible, audible
  • man, adult, wearing a dark suit, partially visible on the right side of frame 3 visible
Seen happening
  • A woman in a light jacket sits at a table, looking downcast. [frame:1]
  • The same woman looks up and to her right, her expression serious. [frame:2]
  • The woman is seated at a table with two men standing beside her; one leans in toward her. [frame:3]
Also said
“all this.” 93:54 · “Mr. Norton, I'd like to talk to you alone for a minute. Oh, Miss Mitchell has something to say to us. Please, please, please.” 93:57
Seen
jacket [frame:1], table [frame:3], suit [frame:3]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: tense and formal; themes: social obligation, public versus private speech, gender roles in formal settings; style notes: medium close-up to medium shot, high-contrast black-and-white lighting, static camera, formal attire suggests a social event

A woman in a light-colored jacket is seated at a table while a man in a dark suit stands beside her; another man is partially visible. The transcript includes a toast to 'Miss Ann Mitchell' and a request for a private word with 'Mr. Norton'.

“Now, may I offer a little toast to Miss Ann Mitchell?” 93:46 · “a brilliant and beautiful lady who is responsible.” 93:51 automatic transcript, may be wrong

The record

No renewal found An automated finding, not a verdict. A renewal would have appeared in the Copyright Office's renewal registrations 27 to 29 years after the term began. Those volumes are loaded and our parse of them found no matching renewal. If that is right, a work published 1931–1963 that was not renewed entered the public domain at the end of its 28th year; the volumes are OCR of old print, and the method page reports how often the parse has been found to miss one. Evidence dossier. The finding concerns the US copyright record for the film; it is not clearance for any use, and this page's annotation is machine output.

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Frame from Meet John Doe (1941) at 1:33:50 (passage 1:33:45–1:34:05); US record: No renewal found

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